Chapter Summaries

Sun Wukong effortlessly defeated the Buddhist figures who tried to capture him while Tianpeng watched and concealed his plans. Guanyin called for Erlang Divine Sage True Lord, whose arrival left the assembled gods and Buddhas hopeful that they could finally subdue the monkey.

• Guanyin welcomed the Buddhist reinforcements and urged them to form the Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage Formation.
• Subduing Dragon Arhat attacked Sun Wukong, who struck him down with a casual swing of his staff.
• Sun Wukong questioned Tianpeng about the unfamiliar gods and Buddhas, while Tianpeng resolved to let him test the world's strength.
• Tianpeng pretended he could not help capture Sun Wukong, and a Bodhisattva warned that Erlang Divine Sage True Lord was on his way.
• Sun Wukong crippled seven or eight more attackers and looked forward to fighting Yang Jian as Erlang Divine Sage True Lord approached.

Sun Wukong prepared to face the arriving Yang Jian, only to realize the self-proclaimed Erlang Divine Sage True Lord was a crude impostor. After discovering his Howling Celestial Hound was distracted, the fake Yang Jian confronted Sun Wukong and demanded his surrender.

• The gods and Buddhas cheered Yang Jian’s arrival, while Sun Wukong recalled how formidable the real Yang Jian had been.
• Tianpeng mocked the approaching figure as a fake and tried to provoke Sun Wukong, who saw through his scheme and kicked him away.
• The impostor Yang Jian lectured Sun Wukong about escorting Tang Sanzang, but Sun Wukong ignored him and recognized that he was nothing like the real Yang Jian.
• The fake Yang Jian learned that his Howling Celestial Hound was on a hilltop with a female dog and threatened to eat him afterward.
• Yang Jian met Guanyin, agreed to deal with Sun Wukong for a fee, and landed before him to demand that he kneel and surrender.

Sun Wukong effortlessly withstood Yang Jian’s divine blade, then overwhelmed him with a vastly larger Manifestation of Heaven and Earth. The chapter ended with Sun Wukong stomping Yang Jian flat as the gods and Buddhas watched in shock.

• Yang Jian attacked Sun Wukong with his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade, but the weapon chipped against Sun Wukong’s head and the recoil split Yang Jian’s hand open.
• Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie mocked Yang Jian, enraging him into using Manifestation of Heaven and Earth.
• Yang Jian transformed into a giant and demanded that Sun Wukong surrender, while Guanyin and the other gods and Buddhas stayed silent.
• Sun Wukong unleashed a colossal Manifestation of Heaven and Earth that dwarfed Yang Jian’s form and terrified him.
• Sun Wukong stomped Yang Jian into a meat patty as the gods and Buddhas watched in stunned silence.

Sun Wukong overwhelmed the gods and Buddhas, even after Vairocana Tathagata arrived and restrained his demonic aura. The Buddha resurrected those Sun Wukong crushed and confronted him over his past release and his treatment of Tang Sanzang and Guanyin.

• Sun Wukong dismissed Yang Jian after stomping him into a meat patty, then attacked Guanyin and the other gods and Buddhas.
• Guanyin secretly called for Tathagata, and Vairocana Tathagata descended in a blaze of golden light that suppressed the surrounding demonic aura.
• Sun Wukong realized Vairocana Tathagata was not the Tathagata who had once suppressed him, then crushed several gods and Buddhas to provoke him.
• Buddhist light emerged from Sun Wukong's palm and resurrected the gods and Buddhas he had crushed.
• Tathagata reminded Sun Wukong that he had spared him and asked why he had bound Tang Sanzang and injured gods and Buddhas.

Sun Wukong revealed overwhelming power in his battle with Vairocana Tathagata, shattering the Buddha’s Palm before escaping. Vairocana Tathagata concealed his shattered hand and ordered the others back to Spirit Mountain, where he planned to issue a Three Realms Pursuit Order.

• Sun Wukong rejected Vairocana Tathagata’s threats and declared that he would destroy the fake realm and confront the real Tathagata.
• Sun Wukong’s baleful aura canceled out Vairocana Tathagata’s Buddha radiance, and his punch shattered the Buddha’s seal, injuring the watching gods and Buddhas.
• Vairocana Tathagata sent Guanyin and the others away and fought Sun Wukong in their colossal forms, but Sun Wukong resisted his attacks and wounded him.
• Vairocana Tathagata used Buddha’s Palm, and Sun Wukong met it with both hands, shattering the palm after both combatants suffered severe injuries.
• Sun Wukong escaped using Earth-Crossing Golden Light, while Vairocana Tathagata hid his shattered hand and ordered the group to return to Spirit Mountain and report what had happened.

At the Ten Thousand Buddhas Hall, the gods and Buddhas questioned Tianpeng about his conversation with Sun Wukong, who had become powerful enough to injure Guanyin Bodhisattva, Subduing Dragon Arhat, and Yang Jian. Vairocana Tathagata stopped them from forcibly searching Tianpeng’s soul, then persuaded him to offer it up voluntarily, and the assembly prepared to take him away.

• Guanyin Bodhisattva, Subduing Dragon Arhat, and Yang Jian recounted Sun Wukong’s escape and the injuries he had inflicted, shocking the gods and Buddhas.
• The gods and Buddhas proposed hunting down Sun Wukong, while Vairocana Tathagata asked Tianpeng what he had discussed with him.
• Tianpeng claimed he had escaped Sun Wukong because his meat tasted bad, but Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Arhats accused him of hiding a secret.
• Tianpeng said they could extract and search his soul, prompting Subduing Dragon Arhat and the others to move to do so.
• Vairocana Tathagata condemned searching Tianpeng’s soul without consent, then urged him to volunteer it for the sake of the Three Realms.
• Tianpeng’s offer was treated as voluntary, and Vairocana Tathagata ordered the gods and Buddhas to take him away and learn what had happened.

Tianpeng escaped the Buddhist Sect after Vairocana Tathagata ordered his soul searched, and the Buddhas issued a hunt for him and his companions. Sun Wukong arrived bloodied at Bull Demon King's wedding feast on Thunder Accumulation Mountain, where Bull Demon King welcomed him as a worthy brother despite the trouble he had caused.

• Tianpeng refused Vairocana Tathagata's demand for a soul search, and Guanyin ordered the gods and Buddhas to seize him.
• Tianpeng transformed into golden light and fled, while the Buddhas ordered a hunt for Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing, and White Dragon Horse and summoned Buddhist leaders back for support.
• Sun Wukong arrived at Thunder Accumulation Mountain during Bull Demon King's wedding celebrations, and the minor demons tried to drive him away.
• Sun Wukong killed the demons who attacked him and waited in a chair until Bull Demon King came down the mountain.
• Bull Demon King recognized Sun Wukong, dismissed the demons, and invited his worthy brother for wine; Sun Wukong warned him that what happened next was uncertain.

Sun Wukong confronted the Bull Demon King at his wedding and beat him into submission after effortlessly stopping his trident with one finger. He claimed eating Tang Sanzang's flesh had made him powerful, leaving the Bull Demon King bitterly regretting that he had not eaten the monk himself.

• The Bull Demon King tried to pass Sun Wukong's arrival off as a joke, but Sun Wukong declared he had come to cause trouble.
• The Bull Demon King attacked Sun Wukong with his trident, and Sun Wukong stopped the blow with one finger.
• The Bull Demon King licked Sun Wukong's finger, so Sun Wukong struck him away and beat him into a pulp.
• Sun Wukong restored the Bull Demon King, demanded that he call him Big Brother, and the Bull Demon King eagerly complied.
• The Bull Demon King asked how Sun Wukong had become so strong, and Sun Wukong said he had eaten Tang Sanzang's flesh.
• The Bull Demon King regretted fleeing when Guanyin arrived, realizing he had missed the chance to eat Tang Sanzang himself.

Sun Wukong ordered Bull Demon King to gather information under threat of a Blood Curse, then went to Thunder Accumulation Mountain to find Zixia Fairy. Princess Iron Fan mistook him for a former lover and attacked the wedding, where Sun Wukong revealed the veiled bride had been immobilized.

• Sun Wukong sent Bull Demon King to investigate the Three Realms and threatened him with a Blood Curse if he failed to return by nightfall.
• Bull Demon King abandoned his plan to betray Sun Wukong and left to gather information.
• Princess Iron Fan confronted Sun Wukong, claimed he had once called her sweetheart, and became furious when he said he had come to see Zixia Fairy.
• Princess Iron Fan stormed the wedding, slapped aside Bull Demon King's minor demons, and cursed the veiled bride for breaking up a marriage.
• Sun Wukong tore away the bride's red veil and pointed out that she had been immobilized.

Princess Iron Fan and Zixia Fairy argued over Bull Demon King’s abduction of Zixia, until Sun Wukong silenced them. Bull Demon King returned with news that the Buddhist Sect had issued a Three Realms manhunt order for Sun Wukong, and urged him to flee.

• Princess Iron Fan freed Zixia Fairy, who accused Bull Demon King of kidnapping her and trying to make her his concubine.
• Zixia Fairy and Princess Iron Fan argued until Sun Wukong sent them flying and threatened them into silence.
• Princess Iron Fan confronted Bull Demon King when he returned, and he struck her aside before respectfully greeting Sun Wukong as his big brother.
• Bull Demon King told Sun Wukong that Tathagata had issued a Jianghu Manhunt Order, offering rewards for information and capture across the Three Realms.
• Bull Demon King warned Sun Wukong that people everywhere were searching for him and suggested they run.

Sun Wukong questioned Zixia Fairy about the Moonlight Treasure Box and learned that it was supposed to enable time travel, though their attempts failed. As they planned to test it again at night, the Bull Demon King reported that a pig demon claiming to be Sun Wukong’s junior brother had been caught.

• The Bull Demon King warned Sun Wukong to hide from Vairocana Tathagata’s kill order, but Sun Wukong told him to spread the word that he was on Thunder Accumulation Mountain.
• Sun Wukong asked Zixia Fairy how to use the Moonlight Treasure Box and promised to grant her one request in exchange for the instructions.
• Zixia Fairy asked Sun Wukong to help find her beloved, then explained that the box needed moonlight and the incantation “Prajnaparamita!” to travel through time.
• Sun Wukong and Zixia Fairy tried to activate the Moonlight Treasure Box, but it did not work, so Zixia Fairy suggested they try again under real moonlight that night.
• The Bull Demon King told Sun Wukong that the mountain patrol had caught a pig demon claiming to be his junior brother.

Sun Wukong learned that powerful forces were gathering at Thunder Accumulation Mountain to capture him, but he rejected Bull Demon King’s plan to flee. After Zhu Bajie arrived, Zixia Fairy revealed that the Moonlight Treasure Box could enable time travel, prompting Tianpeng to react with alarm because changing the past was forbidden.

• Bull Demon King warned Sun Wukong that demons, Heavenly Court gods, Buddhist figures, and others had gathered to capture him, then urged him to escape through a secret passage.
• Sun Wukong threatened Bull Demon King for repeatedly suggesting flight and ordered Zixia Fairy to stay with him until they could test the Moonlight Treasure Box.
• Bull Demon King brought the bound Zhu Bajie to Sun Wukong, then left to ask Princess Iron Fan how to neutralize his Blood Curse.
• Zhu Bajie broke free of his ropes and asked Sun Wukong whether he had a plan for the approaching enemies; Sun Wukong said he would fight anyone who came.
• Sun Wukong asked Zhu Bajie about the Moonlight Treasure Box, and Zixia Fairy explained that it could carry people through time.
• Tianpeng warned through his reaction that time travel was taboo in the Primordial Wilderness, and Zixia Fairy angrily challenged his disbelief.

Tianpeng tried to use the Moonlight Treasure Box under moonlight but could not make it work, leaving him to wonder whether Sun Wukong’s trial involved the Time Law. As factions from across the Three Realms converged on Thunder Accumulation Mountain to capture Sun Wukong, their battle with Bull Demon King ended when a giant monkey hand seized everyone.

• Tianpeng used Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping to shine moonlight on the Moonlight Treasure Box and tried Zixia Fairy’s incantation, but it did not react.
• Sun Wukong took back the box and agreed they would have to wait until night to try again.
• The Myriad Demon Kingdom, the Underworld, the Demon Realm, and the Heavenly Court arrived at Thunder Accumulation Mountain, and their members fought over who would capture Sun Wukong.
• Erlang God chose to wait while Bull Demon King rushed out to stop the attackers from destroying Thunder Accumulation Mountain.
• Bull Demon King fought the invaders but was overwhelmed and badly wounded.
• A giant monkey hand appeared and seized everyone fighting on Thunder Accumulation Mountain.

Sun Wukong captured and crushed the demons and monsters who had come after him, then challenged the watching gods and Buddhas to fight. Li Jing attacked with his Treasure Pagoda, but Sun Wukong destroyed it and sent him falling from the sky.

• Sun Wukong seized the Bull Demon King and the other demons and monsters in his palm, leaving them unable to escape.
• The Bull Demon King begged Sun Wukong to spare him and cried over missing his chance to eat Tang Sanzang's Flesh.
• Sun Wukong closed his hand and crushed the captured demons and monsters, then challenged the gods and Buddhas watching from above.
• Li Jing threatened to capture Sun Wukong and hurled his Treasure Pagoda at him.
• Sun Wukong caught the tower, mocked Li Jing, and crushed it with his bare hand, causing Li Jing to fall from the sky.

Sun Wukong faced down the Heavenly Court and Buddhist forces, then raised the banners of rebellion against Heaven. He began settling an old score by forcing the Five Directional Guardians to drink, accusing them of taking his imperial wine.

• Yang Jian refused to challenge Sun Wukong alone and said the gods should wait for Spirit Mountain to act.
• Guanyin repeatedly answered the immortals’ demands with only “Amitabha,” while Sun Wukong mocked the assembled gods and Buddhas.
• Sun Wukong ordered the Bull Demon King to raise the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and Rebel Against Heaven banners atop Thunder Accumulation Mountain.
• Sun Wukong reflected on Flower Fruit Mountain and his past defeat, then decided to vent his anger regardless of whether this place was real.
• Sun Wukong seized the Five Directional Guardians, trapped them in a giant wine vat, and forced them to drink while accusing them of taking his imperial wine.

Sun Wukong forced the Five Directional Guardians to drink a vat of wine and killed them, then waited for night to test Zixia Fairy’s Moonlight Treasure Box. As reinforcements arrived, an immortal warned him that there would be no moon that night.

• Sun Wukong accused the Five Directional Guardians of stealing the Jade Emperor’s imperial wine and forced them to drain a gigantic vat.
• After the Five Directional Guardians begged for their freedom, Sun Wukong crushed them beneath the shattered wine vat.
• Sun Wukong said he wanted to use the Moonlight Treasure Box to travel into the past and truly Rebel Against Heaven for the monkeys who trusted him.
• Sun Wukong threatened Zixia Fairy and demanded to know whether the Moonlight Treasure Box would work when the moon came out; she said it would.
• As reinforcements arrived, an immortal shouted that there would be no moon that night.

A Thunder Department immortal summoned Wind, Cloud, Thunder, and Lightning to hide the moon and provoke Sun Wukong, but Sun Wukong unleashed his demonic aura and endured a devastating lightning assault. The chapter ended with him emerging weary but unharmed, mocking the immortal for making him sleepy.

• The Thunder Department immortal summoned Wind, Cloud, Thunder, and Lightning, who covered Thunder Accumulation Mountain with darkness and torrential rain.
• Sun Wukong questioned the immortal about his grievances, while Erlang God and Guanyin sensed danger and fled with their subordinates.
• The Thunder Department immortal intensified the storm, and Sun Wukong condemned the heavens for repeatedly manipulating and bullying him.
• Sun Wukong released a vast demonic aura that vaporized the clouds and rain and sealed the surrounding region.
• The Thunder Department immortal used his Thunder Seal to bombard Sun Wukong with lightning for more than a hundred breaths, then boasted of his victory.
• Sun Wukong emerged from the lightning unharmed, stretched, and asked whether the immortal was finished because the attack had made him sleepy.

Sun Wukong survived the Thunder Department’s divine lightning and killed the immortals who attacked him, then agreed to take Tianpeng along with the Moonlight Treasure Box. He ordered Tianpeng to kill the remaining immortals, and Tianpeng accepted.

• Sun Wukong endured the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder and mocked the Thunder Department immortal who had struck him.
• Sun Wukong killed the fleeing Thunder Department immortal with a massive lightning bolt, then crushed Wind, Cloud, Thunder, and Lightning in his palm.
• Sun Wukong warned Zixia Fairy that she would meet the same fate if she delayed until nightfall, and she agreed to go with him.
• Tianpeng asked Sun Wukong to take him along with the Moonlight Treasure Box, and Sun Wukong agreed on the condition that Tianpeng avoid tricks.
• Sun Wukong ordered Tianpeng to kill the remaining immortals, and Tianpeng agreed, raising his Nine-Toothed Rake as he approached them.

Tianpeng created the Tianpeng Seal and used its thunderous power to kill the immortals and demons who mocked him. Yang Jian and Guanyin survived by withdrawing, while Sun Wukong ordered them killed and then waited at Thunder Accumulation Mountain for nightfall.

• Tianpeng formed the Tianpeng Seal and inscribed it with the Thunder Dao, giving the immortals a chance to leave.
• The immortals and demons stayed to watch, so Tianpeng unleashed precise lightning strikes that killed them all.
• Yang Jian and Guanyin recoiled in shock at Tianpeng’s strength, and Yang Jian asked whether Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie had eaten Tang Sanzang’s Flesh.
• Sun Wukong ordered Tianpeng to kill the survivors, frightening the remaining immortals, Buddhas, and demons into fleeing.
• Sun Wukong sat down at Thunder Accumulation Mountain and waited for nightfall.

Sun Wukong discovered that Zixia Fairy and Qingxia Fairy were two souls sharing one body, then struck a deal with Qingxia to learn how to use the Moonlight Treasure Box. After learning its method, he prepared to test it himself while threatening the two fairies if they had deceived him.

• Zixia Fairy began to leave as night fell, but her manner changed into Qingxia Fairy's cold personality.
• Sun Wukong recognized that two souls and personalities shared one body, and Tianpeng identified Qingxia as an artifact-born being with an ice-and-fire constitution.
• Qingxia demanded the Moonlight Treasure Box, and Sun Wukong told her Zixia had already traded it to him for help finding her destined Great Sage Equal to Heaven.
• Sun Wukong offered to return the box after learning how to use it, and Qingxia accepted the deal and explained its method.
• Tianpeng volunteered to test the box, but Sun Wukong kicked him aside and ordered both fairies to grab his clothes so he could test it himself.